The First-time Gardener: Everything the Beginner Needs to Know to Create, Maintain and Enjoy a Garden - Softcover

The ideal handbook for the gardening novice, The Virgin Gardener highlights the easiest-to-master and most effective planting and maintenance techniques. Presented in the clearest, most straightforward manner - so the reader is never left in any doubt about what to do next - if anything - the gardening information covers all the basics - from cutting the lawn and choosing and planting flowers and bulbs to pruning trees and shrubs. Following the fortunes of two virgin gardeners - one with a bare plot, the other with an established, though overgrown, garden - the reader is taken a step at a time down the path of successful gardening. A friendly, reassuring book, The Virgin Gardener takes the mystique out of gardening and puts the fun and satisfaction back in.

Jonathan Edwards has spent the last sixteen years writing about all aspects of gardening for a range of publications including books, magazines and newspapers. Having trained at Writtle College in the UK, he spent two years as Deputy Editor of The Gardener before being appointed Managing Editor of Gardening Which? magazine, published by the UK's Consumer's Association. He has edited books on shrubs, herbaceous perennials and patio plants.